Author: Daniel Keem
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Restrictive covenants are how employers extract free labor after employment ends
Non-competes, non-solicits, and clawbacks let employers control workers after they leave. The covenants are spreading down the income ladder. Here’s the cost.
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Adjunct professors are the gig workers nobody marches for
Adjunct professors teach a majority of college classes for poverty wages and no benefits. They’re America’s most invisible gig workforce. Here’s why nothing changes.
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Disconnection policy: the practice that divides families
Scientology’s disconnection policy severs members from family who criticize the church. The personal stories reveal one of its most controversial practices.
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Why Bigger Law Firms Don’t Always Mean Better Results
Big-firm letterhead is reassuring. The data on case outcomes, attention, and value tells a more complicated story about when small firms beat the giants.
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The gig economy survives because the law lets companies pretend workers aren’t workers
The gig model depends on calling workers contractors. The legal contortions to maintain that fiction are getting harder to defend in court and at the ballot.
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Software patents shouldn’t exist
Software patents were sold as innovation incentives. The evidence shows they tax innovation, enable trolls, and protect incumbents. Here’s the case against them.
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Some safety features are rarely used
Cars and homes ship with safety features owners barely engage. The reasons are usability, not laziness, and the gap is killing avoidable accidents.
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Why Financial Freedom Is Overrated
Financial freedom is the FIRE movement’s holy grail. The reality of early retirement is often emptier and lonelier than the spreadsheets advertise.
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Burnout is sometimes self-inflicted
Burnout is real, but not all of it comes from external pressure. Sometimes the calendar we built and the standards we set are doing the damage.